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resource evaluation Media and Technology

Summative Evaluation of Global Soundscapes: Mission to Record the Earth, adapted for visually impaired students

Supported by the National Science Foundation, the Global Soundscapes! Big Data, Big Screens, Open Ears project employs a variety of informal learning experiences to present the physics of sound and the new science of soundscape ecology. The interdisciplinary science of soundscape ecology analyzes sounds over time in different ecosystems around the world. The major components of the Global Soundscapes project are an educator-led interactive giant-screen theater show, group activities, and websites. All components are designed with both sighted and visually impaired students in mind. Multimedia
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TEAM MEMBERS: Barbara Flagg Allan Brenman
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

The Evolving Culture of Science Engagement: An exploratory initiative of MIT & Culture Kettle - Report of Findings, September 2013 Workshop

This report presents the findings of a two-day invitational workshop held at MIT on September 23–24, 2013 as part of the Evolving Culture of Science Engagement Initiative, an ongoing collaboration between a new nonprofit organization, Culture Kettle, and several MIT departments led by the Program in Science, Technology & Society and the MIT Museum. The initiative explores a new wave of public science engagement activity that appears to be dissolving the once-bright line between science and popular culture.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Peter Linett David Kaiser John Durant Thomas Levenson Ben Wiehe
resource research Media and Technology

A global imperative: The report of the 21st century literacy summit

This monograph, the final report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit held in April 2005, presents an action plan for this emerging field applicable to higher education, K-12 education, policy makers, media & the arts, and research, and details the strategic priorities and specific recommendations for these sectors that were the summit's major outcomes.
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TEAM MEMBERS: New Media Consortium
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Learning In and Out of School in Diverse Environments: Life-long, Life-wide, Life-deep

Learning In and Out of School in Diverse Environments is the product of a two-year project during which a panel convened by the LIFE Center (an NSF Science of Learning Center) and the Center for Multicultural Education identified important principles that educational practitioners, policy makers, and future researchers can use to build upon the learning that occurs in the homes and community cultures of students from diverse groups. This report lays out an argument for focusing on cross setting learning as key to equity in STEM education.
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TEAM MEMBERS: The LIFE Center (The Learning in Informal and Formal Enivronments Center) University of Washington James Banks Kathryn Au Arnetha Ball Philip Bell Edmund Gordon Kris Gutierrez Shirley Heath Carol Lee Yuhshi Lee Jabari Mahiri Na'ilah Suad Nasir Guadalupe Valdes Min Zhou
resource evaluation Media and Technology

Cascading Influences: Long-Term Impacts of STEM Informal Experiences for Girls

This report is the result of a project to investigate through a sociocultural lens whether girls-only, informal STEM experiences have potential long-term influences on young women's lives, both in terms of STEM but also more generally. The authors documented young women's perceptions of their program experiences and the ways in which they influenced their future choices in education, careers, leisure pursuits, and ways of thinking about what science is and who does it. This report includes the questionnaire used in the study.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Dale McCreedy Lynn Dierking
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Professional Development Design and Material Resource Needs: Results from a National NASA Science Mission Directorate Survey of Informal Educators

As a part of the strategy to reach the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Science Education and Public Outreach Forum Objective 1.2: Provide resources and opportunities to enable sharing of best practices relevant to SMD education and public outreach (E/PO), the Informal Education Working Group members designed a nationally-distributed online survey to answer the following questions: 1. How, when, where, and for how long do informal educators prefer to receive science, mathematics, engineering, and/or technology content professional development? 2. What are the professional development and
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TEAM MEMBERS: NASA Science Mission Directorate Education and Public Outreach Forums Informal Education Working Group Lindsay Bartolone Suzanne Gurton Keliann LaConte Andrea Jones
resource research Public Programs

Public Engagement on Genetically Modified Organisms: When Science and Citizens Connect: Workshop Summary

The National Research Council's Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences held a 2-day workshop on January 15-16, 2015, in Washington, DC to explore the public interfaces between scientists and citizens in the context of genetically engineered (GE) organisms. The workshop presentations and discussions dealt with perspectives on scientific engagement in a world where science is interpreted through a variety of lenses, including cultural values and political dispositions, and with strategies based on evidence in social science to improve public conversation about controversial topics
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TEAM MEMBERS: Holly Rhodes Keegan Sawyer